Extracts
from formerly Top Secret British reports on
Hewel, October 11, 1945.

Summary of statements by
prisoners.

HEWEL

SS Gruppenführer or
Brigadeführer

CSDIC UK SIR 916
PW 9 Sep 44 spoke very highly of SS
Gruppenführer Walther HEWEL, a Rheinlander,
who le in charge of Ribbentrop's personal staff
in the German Foreign office and who now carries
the diplomatic rank of Ambassador. PW described
him as liaison officer between RIBBENTROP and
HITLER and states thathe spends much time
travelling between the Führer's HQ and
RIBBENTROP'S office. HEWEL spent many years In
the DUTCH EAST INDIES and became a member of the
German Diplomatic Service only in 1937.
According to PW (SR) HEWEL was previously active
in the Auslandsorganisation and when on a visit
to GERMANY was presented to HITLER. From then on
his career was assured. On the 12 Jul 44 HEWEL
married, in SALZBURG, a Miss Blanda Elizabeth
LUDWIG.

CSDIC UK GRGG 192
18 Sep 44: HEWEL Botschafter, (Plenipotentiary
of the German Foreign Office with the
FÜHRER). A description of his wedding to
the sister of an officer is given in Section V
of the present report.

"The ambassador HEWEL is
Hitler's best friend". (SEYFFARDT)

CSDIC UK GRGG 194(C)
For further account of wedding see
report.

? HEYKING: What
was HEWEL in private life?

SEYFFARDT: He was an
industrialist. He was at the Technical High
School in MUNICH at the time of the March to
the Feldherrnhalle" and took part in
that as a young man; he is now 41 years old.
He was then imprisoned at LANDSBERG, and was
in fact in the cell next to HITLER. He
started whenhe was eighteen years old. menhe
was in a steel factory in ENGLAND, and
co-director of a firm in MANCHESTER; he has
spent twenty years in ENGLAND. He was in
BERLIN in the Spring of 1939 and met HIMMLER,
who said to him: "You are to stay here. We
can make good use of a man like you who has
been in ENGLAND for twenty years and knows
the people, etc." OF course he wasn't even a
Party member. Then he said he was very sorry
but he had a very good position in ENGLAND
and was going back there. Thereupon HIMMLER
made him a minister with the rank of
SS-Brigadeführer. Then after six months
he became an ambassador. His little
twenty-two-year old blonde is now: Your
Excellency, the ambassador's
lady."

CSDIC UK GGRG
197, 23 Sep 44: It is believed that the
information given by Generalleutnant SEYFFARDT
in GRGG 194(C) regarding Hewel's pro-war
connections in England are untrue.

CSDIC UK SIR 970
See report for description of HEWEL 5 Sep
44

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